High Wind Warning issued March 8 at 4:13AM EST expiring March 8 at 7:00PM EST in effect for: Bay, Genesee, Huron, Lapeer, Lenawee, Livingston, Macomb, Midland, Monroe, Oakland, Saginaw, Saint Clair, Sanilac, Shiawassee, Tuscola, Washtenaw, Wayne High Wind Watch issued March 7 at 11:25AM EST expiring March 8 at 10:00PM EST in effect for: Bay, Genesee, Huron, Lapeer, Lenawee, Livingston, Macomb, Midland, Monroe, Oakland, Saginaw, Saint Clair, Sanilac, Shiawassee, Tuscola, Washtenaw, Wayne FRASER, Mich. – The Michigan State Police Bomb Squad is deploying a robot at the scene of the Fraser sinkhole today.
Category: Robots
Exploring Titan with Balloons and Landers
Last week – from Monday, February 27th to Wednesday, March 1st – NASA hosted the ” Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop ” at their headquarters in Washington, DC. In the course of the many presentations, speeches and panel discussions, NASA’s shared its many plans for the future of space exploration with the international community.
College For Every Student Connects Rural Students to STEM Learning Experiences and Career Resources
Students at the CFES Center participate in a robotics workshop led by faculty and cadets from the United States Military Academy at West Point CFES STEM week offers opportunities for over two thousand rural students from Adirondack K-12 schools to see what STEM careers are and hear how to pursue them on the college pathway.” ESSEX, N.Y., UNITED STATES, March 7, 2017 / EINPresswire.com / — Throughout last week, College For Every Student connected rural students to a series of learning experiences and career resources in science, technology, engineering and mathematics .
Robot Tax = Protectionism Against Progress
Prophets of the impending automation apocalypse predict that robots will soon take 7 percent to almost 50 percent of all American jobs. Recently, billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates suggested that the job-stealing robots should be taxed just like the workers they replace.
Mayfield Robotics’ Kuri adds IFTTT to tap into your home
Mayfield Robotics’ Kuri robot companion may not have launched yet, but it’s already getting smarter, adding facial detection as well as IFTTT integration. The personable robot was announced at CES 2017 back in January, a Bosch-backed project to put a friendly AI in the modern connected home.
It’s time to tax the robots
Bill Gates has a modest proposal: Tax robots to slow the growth of automation and fund the kinds of important jobs our economy ignores, such as caring for children and the elderly. In an interview with the website Quartz , Gates notes that when a human does $50,000 worth of work, that income is taxed and money goes to the government, but when a robot does the work, no tax is paid on it.
Robots Keep Dying in Fukushima Nuclear Site
Robots sent to clean up the Fukushima nuclear site kept on dying making it hard for the clearing of the area. The Japanese government handed the responsibility of clearing up Fukushima to the Tokyo Electric Power Company .
New Game: BladeShield
It takes a unique set of skills along with a unique set of tools to take on a rogue A.I. hell bent on destroying you and everything in its path. Pick up your BladeShields, dual purpose light sword and proton shield combination, to hold off the onslaught of robotic sawbots, blaster bots, jumps bots and mega turrets! Survive as long as you can in this sci-fi inspired game.
Microsoft shows you how to build a Terminator heads-up display using HoloLens
If you’ve watched any movies about killer robots, then you have seen the stereotypical Terminator-like heads-up display. It’s usually oddly colored to connote non-human vision and it flashes various threat assessments and other information across the robot’s field of view.
SWPA BotsIQ Robot Competition
Location: Butler County Community College – Butler, PA Time: 10:15AM-4:00PM Southwestern Pennsylvania BotsIQ, a gladiator-style robot competition, kicks off the 12th annual regional competition with preliminary rounds on Thursday, March 9, at Butler County Community College. Competition culminates with finals at California University of Pennsylvania’s Convocation Center on Friday and Saturday, April 28-29.
Kindergartner practices ‘Operation’ skills at Middlesettlements Elementary
Christy Boone shows Billy Shallcross, Ruth Shallcross and fourth-grader Sierra Shallcross how a 3D printer works during presentations Friday at Middlesettlements Elementary School featuring science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics. Brody Webb, a first grade student at Middlesettlements Elementary, tries to levitate a ping-pong ball by blowing through a straw during Friday’s STEAM Night.
City offers spring break activities 6 hours from now
Is the city offering any programs or activities for kids to do during spring break? Can you also tell me about upcoming events happening this spring? Yes. The Victoria Public Library is having a variety of fun, free programs during spring break week, March 14-17, to keep your children busy.
JB Hi-Fi may replace cleaners with robots
JB Hi-Fi is considering replacing some of its cleaning contractors with robots in a bid to automate and save costs, according to one of the company’s non-executive directors, Wai Tang.In a roundtable discussion ahead of International Women’s Day, Ms Tang said disruption and volatility in the sector had led to many changes. Meet Method-2, the manned robot A South Korean giant robot has taken its first baby steps while shaking the ground beneath its weight.
Why Raspberry Pi is the future of computing devices
On the strength of it new $10 Raspberry Pi Zero W, it’s hard not to look at the Pi and see the technology industry’s next wave. One of the most useful things about the smartphone is how many different technologies and tools it has consolidated into a single device that fits in your pocket.
Virginia Passes Law Allowing Robots to Deliver Straight to Your Door
Does this mean that Virginians won’t have to tip for pizza delivery? Residents of the Old Dominion may be seeing an uptick in metal faces on their city sidewalks with the passing of legislation that makes robotic delivery possible. Now they just need to figure out that whole vandalism and theft thing.
Automoblog Book Garage: Camaro: Fifty Years of Chevy Performance
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Autonomous Cars: Future Mobility & Market Growth
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Your family robot may be teaching your kids bad manners
Emerson and Asher Labovich play with “Alexa,” an Amazon Echo voice assistant, while their mom, Laura Labovich, looks on. As millions of American families buy robotic voice assistants to turn off lights, order pizzas and fetch movie times, children are eagerly co-opting the gadgets to settle dinner table disputes, answer homework questions and entertain friends at sleepover parties.
2017 Jeep Compass Aims To Satisfy All SUV Drivers
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Robot offers legal assistance in central China
The robot, FaGouGou, is backed with 30 million cases and massive legal knowledge data, covering the criminal, labor, marriage and traffic fields, said Liu Qian, a co-developer. It provides consulting service for lawyers as well as customer data mining service.
Coast Lines, March 5, 2017: Beekeeping basics offered Saturday
The Aptos History Museum presents “Transcending Kitty Hawk; The Real Story of Flight as an Intriguing Slice of Local History” 3-4:30 p.m. Saturday, at the Rio Sands Hotel community room, 116 Aptos Beach Drive. This is the story of John Montgomery whose inventions in aeronautics led to world famous aircraft flights in Aptos and San Jose in 1905.
“Disruption” isn’t the whole VRM story
The vast oeuvre of Marshall McLuhan contains a wonderful approach to understanding media called the tetrad of media effects . You can apply it to anything, from stone tools to robots.
Elementary test scores on the rise at WACS
State standardized scores for elementary students at Westfield Academy and Central School have risen considerably in all levels, board of education members learned at a recent board meeting. WACS elementary principal Dr. Mary Rockey told the board that student scores have risen 17 percent in math compared to this time last year, while scores in ELA have increased by 11 percent since that time.
HMC to expand automated pharmacy
Currently, the automation solutions are available for inpatient services at all hospitals, said Dr Moza Al Hail, Executive Director of Pharmacy at HMC. The automated dispensing cabinets are implemented at each inpatient ward in all HMC hospitals, in addition to the surgical theatres which is equipped with electronic cabinets with touch screens for dispensing medicines.
Second Generation McLaren Super Series: Boy Can It Stop
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Robots are about to make your beer runs
In the future, your beer will be delivered by by robots that look like big beetles out to set up a golf course. Virginia became the first state in the union on Wednesday to legally allow robots to use sidewalks and crosswalks just like us humans.
Programmable Robots Market, 2016-2024: By Type, Applications,…
Programmable Robots Market: Overview Robot is an electro-mechanical machine operated by electronic circuitry or computer program. They can be autonomous or semi-autonomous.
Robots to play key role in dismantling nuclear reactors at Fukushima
Robots are to take key roles in dismantling Fukushima’s damaged nuclear reactors crippled by a devastating earthquake and tsunami – in order to protect workers from high radiation. Toshiba Co.
David Ignatius: Trump is selling snake oil to the Rust Belt
Donald Trump boasts that his “America First” trade and economic policies are bringing well-paid manufacturing jobs back to America. That’s probably his biggest “deliverable” to Trump voters.
The Top State for Robotics Innovation? Florida Will Surprise You
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New Mexico middle school students participate in robotics expo
The Top 30 teams in the state got to put their creations to work at an expo hosted by Air Force Research Lab New Mexico. “They know now what it takes to make a little robot move left or right or front and back.
Ghost Robotics’ Minitaur Robot Explores the Great Outdoors
Ghost Robotics ‘ compact and nimble Ghost Minitaur robot is both exceptional and frightening at the same time. Now the company has released a video of the robot while it explores the outdoors.
Glenfield BOCES kicks off new manufacturing-based program
While a unique production and technology class here has kicked off with small numbers, Jefferson-Lewis Board of Educational Services officials hope to manufacture substantial student interest in upcoming years. “They’re using all of the high-tech tools that they will use in manufacturing,” said Walter J. Berwick Jr., instructor for the new integrated production and design technology program at the Howard G. Sackett Technical Center.
Releases Top10 Predictions on China’s Medical IT Industry
Chinese hospitals will adopt 20% more robots by 2020, and more cognitive computing and artificial intelligence systems and devices will be widely used in the country’s hospitals, according to recent IDC report IDC FutureScape: Top10 Predictions of Healthcare IT 2017 China Implications . “The medical IT industry is undergoing revolutionary changes.
Robotics Prosthetics Market Production, Revenue, Price, Market Share…
PUNE, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA, March 2, 2017 / EINPresswire.com / — Market Scenario and Highlights: Robots are widely used to assist humans in repetitive and physically demanding work or for things that need accuracy and precision in nearly every industry. Modern day prosthetics, or robotic limbs, are defined as mechanical limbs that are controlled by microprocessors and nerve impulses.
Chat app Line is developing an AI assistant and Amazon Echo-style smart speaker
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Nanobots Market Sales by Key Regions, With Production, Consumption,…
PUNE, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA, March 2, 2017 / EINPresswire.com / — Market Highlights: Nanobots will be the next generation of Nano machines. Nanobot are an extremely small machine designed to perform a specific task on a microscopic scale.
Virgin Australia, IAG chairman predicts robots will take our jobs, and our hearts
Virgin Australia and IAG chairman, Elizabeth Bryan , shared the unexpected pleasure she got from her summer reading list with the mob that attended Thursday’s AICD Governance Summit in Melbourne. ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft tells the Economics Legislation Committee bank culture is still an issue that needs to be addressed.
Facebook steps up suicide prevention – with robots
Facebook added suicide prevention tools to its live video service Wednesday, in hopes of bringing real-time help to users who may harm themselves while broadcasting on the social media platform. The new Facebook Live tools will allow users to report dangerous behavior and suicidal comments directly to Facebook, which will then intervene with help.
In the search for life on Mars, are robots nearing their limits?
Curiosity and the upcoming Mars 2020 rover will continue the search for indirect signs of microbial life on Mars, but some scientists suggest it might take a human touch to uncover conclusive evidence. Is there – or was there ever – life on Mars? NASA has spent decades investigating the question with orbiters and rovers, including its upcoming Mars 2020 rover, but at least one scientist suspects he already knows the answer.